Show HN: Retichess

#1

Post by stepanbujnak » Fri, May 16, 2014, 3:33 PM UTC

Show HN: Retichess
retichess.com

Re: Show HN: Retichess

#2

Post by spb » Fri, May 16, 2014, 6:16 PM UTC

I read that as "retchiness".

Re: Show HN: Retichess

#3

Post by gwintrob » Fri, May 16, 2014, 6:16 PM UTC

Looks great. Did you write the chess logic from scratch?

Re: Show HN: Retichess

#4

Post by stepanbujnak » Fri, May 16, 2014, 6:22 PM UTC

gwintrob wrote: post #3

Looks great. Did you write the chess logic from scratch?

No, the application uses chess.js library found here: https://github.com/jhlywa/chess.js

Re: Show HN: Retichess

#5

Post by peter_l_downs » Fri, May 16, 2014, 6:38 PM UTC

Just spent a couple minutes playing a game against myself – I won/lost! Looks great, really nice job :)

Re: Show HN: Retichess

#6

Post by cperciva » Fri, May 16, 2014, 6:46 PM UTC

spb wrote: post #2

I read that as "retchiness".

Me too. I spent a while wondering if it was going to be a site ranking how horrible web designs are before I clicked through and realized my error.

Re: Show HN: Retichess

#7

Post by mauz » Fri, May 16, 2014, 7:40 PM UTC

Really cool, makes me wanna get into chess

Re: Show HN: Retichess

#8

Post by elwell » Fri, May 16, 2014, 7:43 PM UTC

This is really nice. Good performance and appearance.

Would be cool to have automatic matches with others, but simplicity is nice (and it might be hard to get critical mass).

Re: Show HN: Retichess

#9

Post by _xhok » Fri, May 16, 2014, 7:50 PM UTC

Really awesome, might start using this instead of lichess.

One thing stopping me is the chess pieces. They so fancy that they distract me during the game since I have to pay a little more attention to which pieces are which. Standard ones like on chess.com/lichess.org would be nice.

Re: Show HN: Retichess

#10

Post by slig » Fri, May 16, 2014, 7:56 PM UTC

mauz wrote: post #7

Really cool, makes me wanna get into chess

Me too.

Does anyone have good, digitally available, books recommendations?